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Jun. 28, 2014

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That's how his son John Knorp, 65, of Redford Township described him at his funeral today, where many came to pay tribute to the former fire chief. Firefighters from Livonia, where he retired as chief in 1994, and even those who worked with Knorp before his retirement from the Detroit Fire Department in 1983 came to St. Priscilla Catholic Church.

Knorp, who was born Aug. 23, 1922, in Kansas City, Mo., and moved to Detroit at age 14, died at home Wednesday in Livonia at age 91 after battling a long illness. The father of 10 was buried in Livonia's Mt. Hope ...